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The Romans ate a varied diet consisting of vegetables, meat and fish.

The poorest Romans ate quite simple meals, but the rich were used to eating a wide range of dishes using produce from all over the Roman

Empire.

The Romans did not sit down at the table to eat their meals. They spread out on couches around a low, square table. They basically ate lying down! They also ate most of their meals with their fingers

(although they did use spoons for some of the dishes, such as soup, and have knives to cut their food into bite-size pieces).

A range of different fruits and vegetables were eaten by the Romans.

They would have had: carrots, radishes, beans, dates, turnips, pears, plums, pomegranates, almonds, olives, figs, celery, apples, cabbages, pumpkins, grapes, mushrooms and many more. Some of these fruits and vegetable.

Their main food was pottage. Pottage is a kind of thick stew made from wheat, millet or corn. Sometimes they would add cooked meat, offal or a sauce made out of wine.

Their main food was. Porridge is a kind of thick stew made from wheat on Roman Food - Primary Homework Help people consisted of wheat or barley, olive oil, a little fish, wine, home grown vegetables, and if they were lucky enough to own a goat or cow or chickens, cheese and a few eggs.

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Ancient Roman cuisine changed over the long duration of this ancient civilization. Dietary habits were affected by the influence of Greek culture, the political changes from kingdom to republic to empire, and the empire's enormous expansion, which exposed Romans to many new, provincial culinary habits and cooking methods. In the beginning the differences between social classes were not very great, but disparities developed with the

empire's growth.

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